BIOL 207: Final Exam Questions With
Complete Solutions Genotype - Correct Answers ✅the entire genetic information inherited by an organism or specific allele combinations Phenotype - Correct Answers ✅any detectable manifestation (morphological, behavioural, physiological, etc.) of a specific genotype Genomics - Correct Answers ✅the study & cataloguing of entire genomes & their gene products Transcriptomics - Correct Answers ✅the study of transcriptomes and their functions (mRNA, rRNA, tRNA) Reaction norm - Correct Answers ✅the pattern of phenotypic plasticity exhibited by a genotype Mutant - Correct Answers ✅rare discontinuous variants in a population Recessive - Correct Answers ✅allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present Morph - Correct Answers ✅contrasting but recurring form/type within a single population of a species (eg.melanistic forms of larger felines) 1 / 2
BIOL 207: Final Exam Questions With
Complete Solutions Allele - Correct Answers ✅alternative form of a gene Genome - Correct Answers ✅complete genetic material within a somatic cell, including both inactive & expressed genes, as well as genetic information from organelles Chromosome - Correct Answers ✅linear (in eukaryotes) or circular (in bacteria) piece of DNA & associated proteins p arm - Correct Answers ✅short arm of a chromosome q arm - Correct Answers ✅long arm of a chromosome Centromere - Correct Answers ✅specialized proteins located in a specific region of the DNA that allow the attachment of kinetochores Telocentric - Correct Answers ✅centromere located at the very end of the chromosome (at the telomere) on one side of the chromosome Metacentric - Correct Answers ✅centromere located in the middle of the chromosome
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